After the points competition, the program team did not notify the time of the semi-finals, but only informed Jiang Feng that the two restaurants that were promoted by the American side - Peng Changping's Chinese restaurant and Chef Arnold jumped to the old club in front of the top-floor restaurant, the old and well-known Michelin three-star Western restaurant in the United States, New York Light.

Don't ask why this restaurant is called New York Lights, its literal translation in English is New York Lights.

is very harmonious, the restaurants that advanced to the semi-finals are two Chinese restaurants and two Western restaurants, and it is 10,000 unbelievable to say that the program team did not operate Jiang Feng in the back.

It's just that for Jiang Feng now, it doesn't matter if it's really a dark box operation, and it doesn't matter if Taifeng Lou can enter the finals or even win the championship.

The most important thing is to make Jiang's ginseng soup that truly belongs to you.

Nothing is more important than improving your cooking skills.

And in this most important matter, Jiang Feng encountered unprecedented obstacles.

After the end of the first round of the points competition, all the contestants drank a full porridge and went back to their restaurants to welcome the fame and fortune brought to them by the broadcast bonus of the program for a long time in the future.

Yongheju's Tan family cuisine returned to the public eye, Babaozhai unexpectedly saved some non-existent reputation while making money, Zhiweiju completely sat firmly in the position of the leading boss of the domestic white case restaurant, and the top-floor restaurant became a benchmark and model for domestic Western restaurants, and even Huaiyanglou and Cheng Ji Restaurant, which did not perform well during the competition, also had a prosperous business.

Taifeng Lou is the first in the points competition, although the show is only halfway through, Taifeng Lou's performance is still the most eye-catching, and the fame and fortune gained are also the most.

It stands to reason that Tai Fung Lou's business should be the most prosperous, but in reality, on the contrary, Tai Fung Lou's business is the least changed among the seven restaurants.

It's not because Taifeng Building's business was saturated in the first place, there is no saturated business in this world. In this era when people are willing to queue for two or three hours to buy milk tea, as long as the guests don't mind, no businessman will think that there are too many customers in their own house, and there will never be too many customers.

Tai Fung Lou's business has not changed much, because their signature is also the strongest performance in variety shows, and the contestants are recognized as the brightest star in the future Chinese food industry, Mr. Jiang Feng, who went on strike and closed as soon as the competition ended.

This is a real retreat, unlike the retreat that I used to go to Yongheju on time every day to check in, as if I had changed jobs. Since the end of the points competition, Jiang Feng has not been out of the house much, the kitchen utensils at home are complete, and the suppliers of the ingredients in Taifeng Building may send someone to him in the morning, and he doesn't even need to go downstairs to the door, so that the days of practicing at home without leaving home will be more than half a month.

According to the description of the neighbor who lived opposite the door of Jiang Feng's house who did not want to be named, every time he opened the door in the past half a month, he would smell the fragrance of soup wafting from the crack of the door, which was fragrant and strong, and just smelling it could remind him of the chicken soup stewed by his mother when he came home for the New Year (of course, the chicken soup stewed by his mother may not be so fragrant). Sometimes if the door of the house is not closed, you can smell the smell at home, and the child smells the fragrance of the soup stock, and eats two more bowls of rice every day, and he has gained eight pounds in half a month.

The kids next door are all hungry.

The child next door was hungry, but Jiang Feng was about to cry.

It can be said that in the past half a month, he has been getting up early every day to hang the broth, stir-fry vegetables in the morning and cook porridge at noon, practice Jiang's ginseng soup hard in the afternoon, and find time to practice melon carving and make a fruit platter in the evening, waiting for Wu Minqi to come back in the evening to eat together.

In such a situation of all-round development of knife and fire seasoning porridge products, Jiang Feng's porridge has reached the master level, and there is still no progress in self-exploration and self-ability display.

Jiang's ginseng soup is still the same, it is Jiang Zhongheng's Jiang's ginseng soup, and it is also, Peng Changping's Jiang's ginseng soup, but it is not Jiang Feng's Jiang's ginseng soup.

What is the concept of a master porridge?

The basic skills of making porridge and knife skills, seasoning, and heat are different, and making porridge is considered a specialty, and it can even be regarded as a skill. Practicing porridge to the master level is equivalent to brushing a dish to the master level, and studying a dish to the master level on the basis of the three grandmasters may be a bit exaggerated to say that it is beyond the ancient and modern, but if it is rare in the world, it is definitely pertinent.

If Jiang Feng gives up the red case for porridge now, abandons Jiangjia cuisine to create Jiangjia porridge, sets up his own door, and starts from scratch, he can definitely defeat the major porridge shops in the country in a short period of time, and trample the Hong Kong and Guangdong porridge shops that have the same status as Shaxian snacks under his feet, and from then on he will start a sect to unify the porridge industry and become a well-deserved porridge king. If Jiang Feng has a little business acumen, abundant funds and a certain amount of luck, the establishment of Jiang's Congee Group may become the world's largest listed catering group in his lifetime.

Then he was beaten to death by the old man.

Of course Jiang Feng wouldn't do that, he was crazy to give up the entire forest for a tree. If he really wants to make progress in the porridge road, he can open another porridge shop in his spare time, and it is a good choice to plate down Han Guishan's porridge shop in the snack street, and he can still dominate the Beiping porridge world.

On December 21st, the winter solstice, the winter of Beiping has already arrived, but every household will still eat a bowl of hot dumplings in this day when the sun is directly shining on the Tropic of Capricorn, the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere throughout the year.

The Jiang family originally didn't eat dumplings, the old man was a northerner, but he didn't have the habit of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, and Grandma Jiang was a purebred southerner because her family was poor when she was a child, and she only had the habit of eating dumplings during the New Year. If the Jiang family wants to eat dumplings, they can find many excuses, and they don't have to wait until the winter solstice at all, the reason why everyone gathered together to eat dumplings this year is completely to give Jiang Feng a chance to meet everyone.

Comrade Jiang Jiankang, as Jiang Feng's father, has not seen his own son smashed for 16 days.

Who would have thought that as a father who lives downstairs from his own son, he hasn't seen his son smash for 16 days.

He drank a lot of porridge, preserved egg and lean pork porridge, pumpkin porridge, red date porridge, millet porridge, eight-treasure porridge, green vegetable porridge, chicken porridge, seafood porridge, every bowl of porridge was smashed by his own son, but he had never seen his own son smash.

Jiang Jiankang didn't expect that he would have to make an appointment in advance if he wanted to see his own son in his lifetime, and he couldn't make an appointment, even Wu Minqi could only see Jiang Feng and eat fruit with him every day, and the topics of conversation when eating fruit had to be determined after discussing and screening with Ji Yue and Comrade Wang Xiulian during the day.

Now Jiang Jiankang, his wife, mother, and father's appointments are all in front of him, and even his nephew (the doctor has the priority to meet), sister-in-law (the eldest aunt is good at comforting people) and his apprentice can also be ranked in front of him This winter solstice The whole family gets together to eat dumplings, that is, the Jiang family and Jiang Feng made an appointment seven days in advance, so that he did not arrange any exercises for himself on the night of the 21st, and the whole family got together and ate dumplings happily.

In fact, seeing Jiang Feng, the need to make an appointment in advance was not proposed by Jiang Feng, to be precise, Jiang Feng didn't know until now that everyone wanted to see him, but they actually had to make an appointment in advance. Since the end of the points competition, Jiang Feng has not cared about other things, and all he thinks about is how to make his own Jiang's ginseng soup and how to find his own style.

Style, like inspiration, is ethereal and may even have been taught Murphy's Law. Murphy's theorem is afraid of what comes, the style is not to come what he wants, even if Jiang Feng is ready to fight for a long time, but the seemingly regular practice that has not made progress for a few days still causes him a lot of pressure.

Jiang Feng was caught in an endless loop.

He knew that he should not imitate others when cooking, and he should not imitate a series of recipe makers such as Jiang Huiqin, Cao Guixiang, and the third grandfather, but he learned that way in the first place. When he was learning, he was imitating 100%, not only the method, but also the habits when cooking, Jiang Feng was imitating.

Now let him not imitate and be himself, he will be a little less adequate.

It's not that you can't do it, but you don't know what counts as imitation and which counts as yourself.

He can make himself a simple dish like fried shredded potatoes, and he can slightly play his own style. But once he makes a recipe, he will only imitate it.

But he can, and the dishes that he is good at with high difficulty are basically recipe dishes. Even the non-recipe Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon is imitating Sun Guanyun, and diners who have eaten it say that the Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon in Taifeng Building has the taste of Jubaolou.

Jiang Feng can only be completely himself now when he is cooking porridge, walking with his feelings, relaxing, and happy, feeling the extraordinary strength from his three grandmasters and master-level porridge.

It is only happy when it comes to cooking porridge.

When cooking other dishes, whether it is shredded yam or Jiang's ginseng soup, Jiang Feng feels that he is solving a problem, or a big problem such as a question and answer question and a calculation question. If you know how to solve the problem and know the solution, you must write a new solution to be correct.

Xueba will cry when he hears it, and Xuezhu will be heartbroken when he sees it.

It's too painful, and it's too torturous.

Everyone doesn't know Jiang Feng's inner journey, but everyone is familiar with his situation.

From the earliest research on the cooking method of mushroom soup, every time Jiang Feng studied something, he had a bit of a taste of not being crazy and not living.

At first, others were crazy, and then they became crazy.

Wang Xiulian and her aunt once suspected that Jiang Feng had a mental illness, but after working hard to improve their proficiency but not being able to rise to the grandmaster, they relied on Li Hongzhang's chowder to vent and cry, and finally overworked and hospitalized has always been the most nostalgic thing for Wang Xiulian and Jiang Jiankang.

Jiang Feng's culinary research and exploration road is full of previous records.

This time he was more exaggerated than the others, and he didn't even get out of the door. Although Jiang Feng is no longer what it used to be, his cooking skills and psychological endurance have improved significantly compared to the past, but others don't know.

Jiang Shoucheng had even begun to greet the doctor of the benevolent doctor, making sure that Jiang Feng would have a hospital bed once he fell.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Feng's safety and protection level has risen to the highest level from the moment he began his retreat, even if his father is idle, don't bother, Wu Minqi reports the latest trends every day, the eldest aunt and Wang Xiulian begin to study psychology, and Jiang Jiandang picks up the medical book (his son's textbook) and begins to look neurological.

In such an atmosphere, the Jiang family ushered in the winter solstice.

A day when the whole family eats dumplings.

Also known as, Jiang Feng's Mental Status Assessment Special Day.